Capturing the Friedmans (2 disc set)
(2003) [MA]

Capturing The Friedmans is a non-fiction film that explores the elusive nature of the truth through the prism of one of the strangest criminal cases in American history. The Friedmans seem at first to be a typical family. Arnold Friedman is an award winning school teacher, his wife Elaine a...  More

The Cooler
(2003) [MA]

Everything Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) touches turns sour, particularly a past gambling habit that has left him seriously in debt to Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), a violent old-school wise guy who runs the Shangri-La Casino. Having realised the potential of Bernie's seemingly contagious bad...  More

The Station Agent
(2003) [M]

Fin McBride (Peter Dinklage), a loner with a passion for trains, inherits an abandoned train depot in the middle of nowhere, a place that suits him just fine because all he wants is to be left alone. But that is not to be. Soon after moving in, he meets Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a distracted...  More

Morvern Callar
(2002) [MA]

After her boyfriend's suicide, a traumatised Morvern (Samantha Morton) struggles to define her place in the world. Her behaviour grows more erratic, until the discovery of her late lover's unpublished novel offers an unexpected solution ... Ramsay's second feature offers further proof of her...  More

The Day of the Locust
(1974) [M]

Nathaneal West’s novel about Hollywood decadence in the late ‘30’s is a brilliant piece of filmmaking. A deeply insightful work that is powerful in its presentation, staggering in its vision. Director John Schlesinger is masterful in creating a world of platinum blondes, cockfights, glamour...  More

House of Sand and Fog
(2003) [MA]

The humble house sits in a small yard but has views of the ocean, views to die for. More importantly, it is a house that represents the American dream: no more than to displaced Iranian Colonel, Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley). Together with his family, he was forced to flee the life he once...  More

Angel Heart
(1987) [R]

A journey of violence and murder that canvasses the desperate streets of Harlem, smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and ultimately to voodoo rituals in the sweltering swamps of Louisiana.  More

Laurel Canyon
(2002) [MA]

Laurel Canyon is a clever, humorous drama with knockout performances by a superb cast. Academy Award® Winner Frances McDormand delivers another perfectly etched performance as an LA record producer dealing with her conservative son (Christian Bale) and his girlfriend (Kate Beckinsale) who...  More

Prisoner of Paradise
(2003) [G]

The startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well-known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920’s and ‘30’s. Among his greatest accomplishments Gerron co-starred with the legendary Marlene Dietrich in the film classic, The Blue Angel. Gerron also sang...  More

Ararat
(2002) [MA]

Directed by Atom Egoyan, Ararat explores how history, both personal and political, can inpsire a legacy of uncertainty and insecurity. Seamlessly shifting through time, Egoyan's film examines the quest for personal, sexual and cultural identity through the intimate moments shared by lovers,...  More

Hollywood Ending
(2002) [PG]

Woody Allen takes a side-splitting look at the bumpy course of true love - Hollywood Style - in this highly acclaimed romantic comedy. Woody stars as Val Waxman, a neurotic, once-great film director who desperately needs a comeback vehicle to jump-start his fizzled career. But when opportunity...  More

Dogville
(2003) [MA]

In Lars Von Trier's experimental Dogville, fugitive Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the isolated township of Dogville pleading that she is on the run from a team of gangsters and desperately need their help. The kindly Tom (Paul Bettany), a self-appointed town spokesman encourages the little...  More

Shattered Glass
(2003) [M]

Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for Rolling Stones Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after...  More

Thirteen
(2003) [MA]

"Brace yourself" (Rolling Stone) for a raw, revealing insight into urban adolescence that's so intense and realistic, "it's possible to turn away" (Interview Magazine). Anxiously trying to fit into the peer pressure cooker environment of junior high, thirteen-year-old Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood)...  More

21 Grams
(2003) [MA]

They say we all lose 21 grams at the exact moment of our death... everyone. The weight of a stack of nickels. The weight of a chocolate bar. The weight of a hummingbird... 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga (Academy Award nominated director 'Amores perros'), explores the emotionally and...  More

The Luzhin Defence
(2000) [M]

Alexander Luzhin is an eccentric chess master whose unstable childhood made him incapable of relating to others. The game of chess is his only escape and his only solace, until he meets and falls in love with the caring Natalia at the Italian resort where he's the favorite in the most prestiigous...  More

Bright Young Things
(2003) [M]

Known to the press, who follow their every move, as the "Bright Young Things", Adam and his friends are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. They are young, party-going creatures embracing innovations like the gramophone record and the telephone as the self-consciously...  More

Sylvia
(2003) [M]

In Sylvia, Gwyneth Paltrow plays Sylvia Plath, a Cambridge student with some poems already published when she meets Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Attracted to each other and full of mutual passion and fire the two quickly fall in love and marry. The film explores their troubled and ultimately tragic...  More

Big Fish
(2003) [PG]

An A-list cast headed EWAN McGREGOR, ALBERT FINNEY and JESSICA LANGE catch an adventure as big as life itself in visionary director TIM BURTON’s feel-good fable BIG FISH. Critics and audiences fell hook, line and sinker for this story of a man, who tries to separate fact from fiction and man...  More

Blood For Dracula
(1974) [R]

The vampire Count Dracula requires the blood of young virgins to stay alive. Pretending to seek the hand in marriage of one of four aristocratic Italian sisters, he discovers that they are already very "modern" and up-to-date, and the impure blood that he sucks out of them only makes him...  More

In America
(2002) [M]

Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton) and their two young daughters, Christy and Ariel (Sarah and Emma Bolger) arrive in Manhattan to make a new start in the land of dreams. Immigrants from Ireland, they have left behind everything they knew in their own country, including...  More

The Driller Killer
(1979) [MA]

The Driller Killer is one of the most notorious flims ever. It almost single-handedly spawned the media "video nasty" hysteria of 1984 and the introduction of the video recordings act. It is also the film that launched the career and reputation of critically acclaimed director Abel Ferrara. Away...  More

Lost in Translation
(2003) [PG]

Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a middle-aged movie star in town to shoot a commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic husband (Giovanni Ribisi). Unable to sleep, Bob and Charlotte cross paths by...  More

Wonderland
(2003) [MA]

In 1981, at the lowest point of his career and the height of his drug addiction, larger-then-life porn superstar John Holmes (aka Johnny Wadd) was implicated in the gruesome murder of 4 people at a house on L.A.'s Wonderland Avenue. An A-list cast headed by Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow and hot rosing...  More

Calendar Girls
(2003) [PG]

CALENDAR GIRLS is the hilariously quirky comedy starring Golden Globe winners Helen Mirren (Gosford Park, Teaching Mrs. Tingle) and Julie Walters (Billy Elliot, Harry Potter series), and directed by Nigel Cole (Saving Grace). When twelve extraordinary members of the Women's Institute, a proper...  More

American Splendor
(2003) [M]

Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with...  More

Monterey Pop (2 Disc Set)
(1968) [M]

The first concert film of the rock & roll era, Monterey Pop is an invaluable record of some of the major musical figures of the late 1960s. The organizers of the Monterey International Pop Festival, held June 16-18, 1967, wisely chose to record the proceedings on film for commercial distribution....  More

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
(1988) [M]

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly...  More

24 Hour Party People: Special Edition (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [MA]

Tony Wilson: a young Cambridge graduate and TV presenter, inspired by the Sex Pistols' first Manchester gig, founds Factory Records and the Hacienda night-club. The bands he signs include: Joy Division (New Order) and the Happy Mondays, while the Hacienda transforms Manchester into "Madchester" -...  More

Mambo Italiano
(2003) [M]

Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents by moving out on his own without getting married, and shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend,...  More